{"id":1411145,"date":"2026-06-27T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-and-the-eu-will-attract-over-700-million-euros-in-defense-production\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:14:14","slug":"ukraine-and-the-eu-will-attract-over-700-million-euros-in-defense-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-and-the-eu-will-attract-over-700-million-euros-in-defense-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and the EU will attract over 700 million euros in defense production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Commission, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and the governments of France and Finland have signed agreements on the development of dual-use technologies and the defense industry. The agreements provide for the provision of 343 million euros in European Union guarantees and grants, which are expected to attract more than 700 million euros in investment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported <a href=\"https:\/\/mod.gov.ua\/news\/ye-s-ta-ukrayina-zapuskayut-novi-programi-na-343-mln-dlya-rozvitku-tehnologij-podvijnogo-priznachennya?utm_source=mod-telegram&#038;utm_medium=social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by the press service<\/a> of the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p> It is noteworthy that the signing of the agreements took place during the Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine in Gdansk. The new agreements open up additional opportunities for scaling up Ukrainian dual-use technologies and defense production, and will also contribute to deeper integration of Ukrainian companies into the European industrial and technological base.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The new agreements open up additional opportunities for scaling up Ukrainian dual-use technologies and defense production. This is another step towards deeper integration of domestic companies into the European industrial and technological base,&#8221; said Serhiy Boev, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine for European Integration.<\/p>\n<p> It is expected that the new financial instruments will enable the mobilization of over 700 million euros in investment in the development of:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> production of unmanned aerial vehicles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> anti-drone systems;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> ground robotic complexes;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> aviation industry;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> advanced navigation and communication technologies;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> other strategic industries.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> &#8220;It is important that investments cover not individual products, but a holistic technological contour of modern defense,&#8221; said Hanna Gvozdiar, Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to her, this will make it possible to simultaneously develop the platforms themselves, technologies for their effective use, and means of protection against hostile unmanned systems.<\/p>\n<p> The financing will be provided under the second component of the Ukraine Facility, which includes the Investment Framework Programme for Ukraine. Its budget is \u20ac9.5 billion, including \u20ac7.8 billion in guarantees and \u20ac1.7 billion in blended finance grants.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the Polish state-owned Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and the Ukrainian manufacturer of unmanned systems Skyfall signed a memorandum of understanding on financing investments in the expansion of the company&#8217;s production capacity. It is noted that the financing under the second component of the Ukraine Facility program should help Skyfall meet growing demand and facilitate the company&#8217;s integration into the European industrial and technological base.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, in Kyiv, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur and Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov signed <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/estoniia-ta-ukraina-domovylysia-pro-spilne-vyrobnytstvo-droniv-ta-system-reb\/\">an agreement of intent on cooperation in the defense industry<\/a> . The document provides for the creation of joint production of strike drones and electronic warfare systems.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and the governments of France and Finland have signed agreements on the development of dual-use technologies and the defense industry. The agreements provide for the provision of 343 million euros in European Union guarantees and grants, which are expected to attract more than 700 million euros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1411139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76885,76871],"class_list":["post-1411145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}